ART ENCOUNTERS | Appearance & Essence | 3-31 OCTOBER 2015 TIMISOARA | ARAD
Simion Cernica
(1973, București, România - lives and works in Los Angeles, California)
Simion Cernica got close to art by building a personal study method of contemporary art and its connected phenomena from the mid '90s. He chose this course as a personal statement, as answer and need for a better strategy to study and practice contemporary art in the multi-dysfunctional context of those years, and even after – not only within the frame of academic study or official art practice, but within the Romanian context at large. If initially he focused on photography, painting, film/video, installation, at present he works with any shape of visual and performative language that can conceptually and formally sustain his projects. Filtering his personal history, the social and political contemporary energies, the history of the 20th century or the more recent one, still ‘in progress‘, he continues to negotiate his position as an artist and citizen (RO/EN/USA), contextually internalizing the geographical position he occupies.
